Re: zcat functionality in Perl for NT
F. Donck (ksfdo0@ksepl.shell.nl)
27 Sep 1995 10:39:52 +0000
On Sep 26, 4:49pm, Phillip M. Sparks wrote:
> Subject: zcat functionality in Perl for NT
> I am porting several Unix awk scripts to run on NT under Perl.
> However, one of the main functions is to use zcat to uncompress selected
> files on the UNIX NFS server and create a stream to be processed.
> I have the NFS on NT, but have not been able to find a zcat equivalent.
> Does Perl offer a subsitution or do any of the Unix to NT converts know of a
> zcat port? I would like to keep the files compressed since we have hundreds
> of files at 3-10MB each uncompressed.
One of the possibilities is to get zcat as part of the GNU gzip tools from
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gzip.*
>
> Thanks,
> Phillip M. Sparks
> Sr. Open Systems Engineer
> PRC Inc
> sparks@worms-giis.army.mil
>-- End of excerpt from Phillip M. Sparks
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